The owners of a non-profit...

ANIMAL HAVEN TROUBLED.

February 26, 1989

WALDO — ANIMAL HAVEN TROUBLED. The owners of a non-profit retirement home for circus and zoo animals said they are unsure how to fight an eviction notice for failing to pay their rent. Gene and Rusti Schuler, who own and care for about 100 wild animals at the Wild Animal Retirement Village in Alachua County, owe $2,100 in back rent, said their landlord Margie Kluttz of New Smyrna Beach. ''We really don't know what's going to happen,'' Mrs. Schuler said. ''We've gotten behind on the rent, but we've lived here 11 years and we've always called when we knew we were going to be late with the rent.'' The Schulers have until Monday to challenge the eviction notice in court.